International visitation is up nearly 14% this year

Between January and September, Mexico’s planetary visitation accrued by 13.9% implicit the aforesaid play past year, according to the Tourism Ministry. 

In that period, Mexico received 71 cardinal visitors, of which 34.7 cardinal were planetary travelers who stayed overnight, which is 6.4% higher than past year. while the number  of tourists disconnected cruise vessel passengers accrued by 10.6% to a full of 8 million.

As affirmative arsenic the tourer numbers person been truthful acold this year, overmuch higher visitation is forecast for 2026, erstwhile the World Cup matches successful Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara are expected to pull visitors from each implicit the world. (Elizabeth Ruiz/Cuartoscuro.com)

“The results we are presenting contiguous foreshadow a historical 2026 for tourism successful Mexico, a twelvemonth that, with the boost from the World Cup, FITUR [the International Tourism Fair successful Madrid, successful which Mexico volition play a salient role] and different planetary promotional activities, volition consolidate our state arsenic a planetary tourism and taste powerhouse,” Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez Zamora said.

Official figures besides revealed that during the January-September period, overseas speech net from planetary visitors amounted to US $25.7 cardinal — up 6.2% compared to 2024.

Rodríguez noted that arsenic of the 3rd 4th of 2025 the mean spending by planetary tourists arriving by aerial besides increased. According to the report, these travelers spent an mean of US $1,242.60, marking a 6.1% summation compared to the erstwhile year.

Replicating the aforesaid upward trend, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) revealed that September unsocial saw 7.28 cardinal travelers participate Mexico, a singular summation of 16% compared to the aforesaid period of 2024. Of that September total, little than fractional (3,203,803) were overseas residents who spent astatine slightest 1 nighttime successful the country, which is really down from past September. The remainder were excursionists who did not walk a nighttime successful Mexico, usually cross-border day-trippers oregon cruise vessel passengers.

Though spending accrued implicit the archetypal 3 quarters, mean spending per tourer decreased by 11.1% successful September, falling from US $285 successful September 2024 to $253.36 this year. 

Rodríguez said she expects an important summation successful October, arsenic it marks the onset of acold upwind successful the United States and Canada, which typically draws much tourists to the country. 

She added that this existent play is 1 of the busiest of the twelvemonth for Mexico’s tourism sector, owed to accrued abrogation travel, favorable upwind present and improved aerial connectivity, reinforcing Mexico’s presumption arsenic 1 of North America’s favourite destinations.

“Tourism enactment continues to turn steadily and each indications amusement that 2025 volition adjacent arsenic a historical year,” Rodríguez said. 

Mexico News Daily